How much does Opera GX make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Opera GX earns approximately $2.0K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.

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Opera GX is published by Opera Norway AS on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.

What is Opera GX's BU Score?

Opera GX has a BU Score of 78/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Opera GX

Quality Score

Strong

Opera GX

Name: Opera GX — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Opera GX revenue, Opera GX app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

High confidence

4.8 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Opera GX is an iOS app from Opera Norway AS in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 91,855 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$5.0K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.2K – $10.8K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$6.4K – $19.2K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Reviews

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Forecast Revenue / mo

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Snapshots tracked

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$60K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $45K – $80K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~2.5y at current MRR

Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.

Where the money goes

🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship)	+$28K
📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K	+$22K
📦 Asset bundle (102 MB)	+$20K
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-10686

Total estimate $60K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$30K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $25K – $40K · 16× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.5× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.

How the multiple was built

📺 Ad-supported base	15× MRR
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%

Final multiple 16× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

18.0M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

3.6M

Daily active

720K

Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.

How we sized it

📲 Utilities engagement	~200 installs / rating
🔁 Utilities D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$4.7K – $7.9K

12 months

$5.2K – $10.8K

24 months

$6.4K – $19.2K

Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.2

Product Quality

9.7

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

4.8

Market Position

1.5

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.84★ across 91,855 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($17K/mo combined) commands premium.

Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.

Range:

💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL

Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 9 of 9 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Mid install base (91,855 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC		+$2,200
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
Multilingual (30 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
annoying adsREVIEW		−$1,100
Established app (4y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v3.2.1

Thanks for choosing Opera GX! This version includes latest bug fixes and improvements.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Opera GX
Developer: Opera Norway AS
Bundle ID: com.opera.gx
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 17+
Languages: BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LV, LT, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SK, ES, SV, TH, TR, UK, VI

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Your personal browser
Description: Faster, safer and smarter than default browsers. Fully-featured for privacy, security, and so much more. Get the faster, better Opera browser for free.
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: NO-03
Employees: Not found
Logo: Available

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $2.0K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Outside top 100 in US Utilities
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Name: Not found
X / Twitter: twitter.com/opera
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/opera-software
GitHub: Not found
X followers: Not found
Public statements: Not found

Funding

Funding data not yet collected for this app.

Press & Links

Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.

Contacts & Socials

Socials: facebook facebook.com/Opera · instagram instagram.com/opera · linkedin linkedin.com/company/opera-software · tiktok tiktok.com/@opera.browser · twitter twitter.com/opera · youtube youtube.com/opera
Email: Not found
Phone: Not found
Contact page: opera.com/help
About page: opera.com/about

✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW

Specific revenue figures for the iOS app "Opera GX" by Opera Norway AS are not publicly available. While Opera GX is a free browser that generates revenue through advertising and search partnerships across its PC and mobile platforms, detailed breakdowns for the iOS app's individual contribution are not disclosed in public financial reports or app analytics databases. Opera's overall company revenue in Q1 2025 was $142.7 million, and Opera GX had 34 million average monthly active users across PC and mobile in the same period. The average revenue per user (ARPU) for Opera GX was reported as $3.47 in Q2 2025, higher than Opera's overall average. Sensor Tower data indicates that the total worldwide revenue for all Opera apps in the last 30 days was approximately $70,000, primarily driven by the 'Opera: Private Web Browser' app, not specifically Opera GX.

Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, founder claims

📈Ratings growth93,592 ratings+75% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (45 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked

This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.

Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.

📝 About this app

Opera GX brings the gaming lifestyle to your mobile. Express yourself with custom skins, discover free games and the best deals with GX Corner, share links easily between mobile and desktop with My Flow, and much more. All in a secure, private browser.

Designed for gamers

Opera GX’s unique design is inspired by gaming and gaming gear, with the same style that won the desktop GX browser the Red Dot and IF Design awards. Choose from custom themes like GX Classic, Ultra Violet, Purple Haze and White Wolf.

Free games, gaming deals, upcoming releases… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 102 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v3.2.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 BG, CA, HR, CS, DA +25📂 Utilities💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

10 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →

2026-05

🔄

Monetization changed: freemium → free

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 4.08 → 4.80 (improved 0.72★)

2026-03

📈

Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-03

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-03

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-02

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-02

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.29 → 3.88 (dropped 0.41★)

2025-02

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-02

⭐

Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)

2025-02

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 5 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.80459★	6,576	4.80459★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.76273★	12,100	4.76273★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.79915★	10,814	4.79915★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.57348★	1,388	4.57348★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.83273★	93,592	4.83273★ this version

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